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Lessons from failure: Why we try, try again Your mindset after facing failure can make all the difference By Bethany Brookshire 7:00am, November 2, 2015 EMail Everyone experiences some failures when trying tough things. Focusing on what they can learn for next time keeps some people from giving up, new brain data show.? EMail Reddit Google+ CHICAGO ? ?Everyone experiences failures. But not everyone brushes themselves off and tries again. A new study shows that focusing on what can be learned from a failure appears to help people persevere ? with a better chance of success the next time.

Myers 8e Review (Prologue-Ch.13)

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Behaviorism

behavior

Philosophy of mind

classical conditioning

Dopamine

12 WEEK COMP REVIEW (PROLOGUE-CH. 13) UNIT ONE: RESEARCH, NEUROSCIENCE, & GENETICS (PRO.-CH. 3) Random sample: sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion. Hindsight bias: the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (Also known as the I-knew-it-all along phenomenon.) The false consensus effect: the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors. Survey research: a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of them.

Chapter 10: Psychology: Themes and Variations, Canadian Edition

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Human sexual activity

Aggression

Need for achievement

Motivation and Emotion Motivation majority of motivation is unconscious sexual motivation is pretty prominent ex. study in the Netherlands found that women dressed more scantily when ovulating motivation: direction/goal of motives strength of motives reflect biological and psychosocial needs drive: internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension (restore equilibrium, homeostasis) motives can be overridden by conscious thought biological motives: hunger motive thirst motive sex motive temperature motive excretory motive sleep/rest motive activity motive (optimal level of stimulation/arousal) aggression motive social motives: achievement motive social dominance hierarchy affiliation motive (social bonds) need for acceptance

Chapter 7: Mood Disorders

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Mood Disorders Depressive Disorders Depressive Episodes Irritable vs. depressed mood Vegetative symptoms Endogenous symptoms Dysthymia Psychotic symptoms Double Depression Bipolar Disorders Manic episode Cyclothymia Who commits suicide? More females attempt, more males succeed. White Americans and Native Americans more likely Increased risk in elderly Etiology Psychological theories Cognitive perspective Seligman?s theory Beck?s theory Limitations ? similar, reality? Behavioral perspective Family factors Depressed parents, depressed children Stressful events (chronic, uncontrollable, beyond coping skills) Biological Factors Genetic factors MDD and dysthymia ? genetic factors account for 50%+ of variance

Motivation and Emotion

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Arousal

Grant Clay Period 3 10/25/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 10: Motivation & Emotion Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Motivational Theories & Concepts Motivation ? Involves Goal-Directed Behavior Drive Theories Homeostasis ? A State of Physiological Equilibrium or Stability. Drive ? An Internal State of Tension that Motivates an Organism to Engage in Activities that should Reduce this Tension. When you Experience Discomfort, An Internal Drive motivates you to Establish Homeostasis again. Drive Theories Don?t Explain All Motivation. Incentive Theory Incentive ? An External Goal that has the Capacity to Motivate Behavior. Incentive Theory revolves around External Stimuli, Not Internal like Drive Theory.

Stress, Coping, and Health

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Workplace stress

Coping

Psychological resilience

Chronic stress

Social support

Burnout

Emotional exhaustion

Stress-related disorders

Grant Clay Period 3 11/11/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 13: Stress, Coping, and Health Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Biopsychosocial Model ? Physical Illness is caused by an interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Health Psychology ? How Psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Stress ? Any Circumstance that threatens or is perceived to threaten one?s well being and that thereby tax ones coping abilities. Stress has a Cumulative Nature. The Feeling of Stress depends upon how one interprets a situation. Acute Stressors ? Threatening Events that have a Relatively Short Duration and a clear Endpoint.

Rhetorics

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pathos

ethos

Jesus

Modes of persuasion

Inventio

entertainment

Simran Ghooi Within acclaimed writers and speakers such as Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and John Edwards we see a major use of the appeals, logos ethos and pathos, present throughout their most popular pieces. Any good speaker would appeal to all three of these things and the four authors do exactly that. They all predominantly capture an essence of both and pathos and logos, and lack a bit in ethos.

AP Psychology Emotion Outline

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Two-factor theory of emotion

Mind

Psychological theories

cognitive science

Philosophy of mind

Arousal

Interpersonal relationships

Emotion Outline Emotion- a response of the whole organism Physiological arousal Expressive behaviors Conscious experience Emotional Arousal Autonomic nervous system controls physiological arousal Arousal and Performance- Performance peaks at lower levels of arousal for difficult tasks, and at higher levels for easy or well-learned tasks. ? Emotion-Lie Detectors Polygraph- machine that is commonly used in attempt to detect lies; measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (i.e. perspiration, heart rate, blood pressure, breathing changes0 Control Question Up to age 18, did you ever physically harm anyone? Relevant Question Did the deceased threaten to harm you in any way? RELEVANT > CONTROL ! LIE Is 70% accuracy good?

The Method of Physical Actions

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Chapter 2The Method of Physical Actions Emotion on Stage You cannot force emotion before going onstage. It is difficult to perform certain physical acts without looking rehearsed and mechanical You must be able to find ways to be new and fresh every night. Falling into a pattern of actions is not always a good thing for it can make you look repetitive and boring. The play ?Who?s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? requires enormous amounts of emotion Digging Deeper It is less difficult to play a character when you have looked deeper into the script To act, you must fully indulge yourself into the character You can better understand a character by walking in their shoes and studying the character.

Causes of the Great Depression

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